Example sentences of "be [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | The perceptible facial expressions that have been described by other authors are mostly of no real help to us : ( i ) Yawning . |
| 3 | The remaining songs are mostly of a more cheerful nature , sometimes with an occasional function . |
| 4 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
| 5 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 6 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 7 | Without exception , the show 's directors are all under 30 , as are most of the contributors , and Jason Rebello looks barely old enough to order a drink . |
| 8 | Where are most of the shallow mines ? |
| 9 | In which group , or category , of industry are most of the factories on the Treforest industrial estate ? |
| 10 | In which parts of the coalfield are most of the old shallow pits which have been closed ? |
| 11 | I know you 're a grown woman but so are most of the others who lurch their way down the not-so-primrosy path to the Betty Ford Clinic . ’ |
| 12 | Where you have your main account depends very much on where you are most of the time . |
| 13 | Are most of the people on this estate white ? |
| 14 | In contemporary societies these are necessarily of a cultural or social nature ; nationality and territory being crude and highly approximate signifiers of shared ancestry . |
| 15 | However , a group of assessors under the President of Ukraine and President Kravchuk himself are obviously of a different opinion ; they are credited with the authorship of the agreement . |
| 16 | It was very handy , being so close to town , and as the Lock family are much of an age with our boys we had a very jolly time together . |
| 17 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 18 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 19 | Some Orfe are also available which are basically of the golden variety , but which have varying amounts of black on them . |
| 20 | This is what they teach fighters in Britain and that 's why most British fighters are only of a certain calibre . |
| 21 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 22 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 23 | Mental symptoms arising in this way are generally of the greatest importance when selecting the most similar remedy . |
| 24 | Tunnel linings on the British side are generally of the expanded grouted type used successfully in the 1973–75 project but in poorer ground cast iron linings are used . |
| 25 | These aids are generally of the ‘ try all possible combinations of … ’ variety and therefore demand excessive processing time besides inhibiting the use of common sense — the most valuable of all data analysis tools . |
| 26 | The spatial sensations evoked by Braque 's L'Estaque landscapes are already of a new order although his handling of space was to become increasingly original . |
| 27 | He replied , in pan , ‘ The questions and problems which you indicate are exactly of a nature about which I warned you . |
| 28 | Havvie and I are exactly of an age . |
| 29 | By definition , racing is not a sport in which you can quit when you 're ahead of the game . |
| 30 | I suppose you 're ahead of the game if you 're alive . |